Known For
Acting
Born
May 10, 1957
Place of Birth
Essex, England, UK
Credits
85 titles
Alex Jennings
Biography
Alexander "Alex" Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor, who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. A three-time Olivier Award winner, he won for Too Clever by Half (1988), Peer Gynt (1996), and My Fair Lady (2003). He is the only performer to have won Olivier awards in the drama, musical and comedy categories. He played Prince Charles in the 2006 film The Queen. His other film appearances include The Wings of the Dove (1997), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Babel (2006) and The Lady in the Van (2015). He also played Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, in the critically acclaimed Netflix series The Crown.
Known For
Filmography
Dirty Business
Sir James Bevsn
Ballad of a Small Player
Adrian Lippett
The Phoenician Scheme
Broadcloth
Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes
Michael Mansfield KC
MobLand
Archie Hammond
The Agency
Frank
Blitz
Victor Smythe
A Very Royal Scandal
Sir Edward Young
The New Look
Raymond Dior
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
James Arbuthnot
Your Christmas or Mine 2
Humphrey
Your Christmas or Mine?
Humphrey
The Forgiven
Lord Swanthorne
The Undeclared War
David Neal
Operation Mincemeat
John Masterman
This Is Going to Hurt
Lockhart
Munich - The Edge of War
Sir Horace Wilson
Small Axe
Judge Clarke
Gold Digger
Ted Day
National Theatre Live: Hansard
Robin Hesketh
A Very English Scandal
Peter Bessell
Il était une fois... « The Queen »
Self
The Crown
David, Duke of Windsor
Denial
Sir Charles Gray
Victoria
King Leopold
Churchill's Secret
Anthony Eden
The Lady in the Van
Alan Bennett
Unforgotten
Dr Tim Finch
Wolf Hall
Stephen Gardiner
Castles in the Sky
Henry Tizard
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Henry Higgins
Trap for Cinderella
Chance
Belle
Lord Ashford
The Lady Vanishes
Professor Hastings
Dickens in London
Middle-aged Dickens(Voice)
We'll Take Manhattan
John Parsons
National Theatre Live: Collaborators
Mikhail Bulgakov
Silk
Alan Cowdrey QC
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
Henry / Benjamin Britten
On Expenses
Andrew Walker
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
Timothy Geithner
Whitechapel
Anderson
Being Human
Griffin
The 39 Steps
Captain Kell
The Disappeared
Adrian Ballan
Hancock & Joan
John Le Mesurier
10 Days to War
Vincent
Fairy Tales
Roger Bateman
Cranford
Reverend Hutton
The Restaurant